Hi @AdamGT
Here’s my star photo as of September 8th, 2021 with a view count of 2,013,907
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A screenshot or photo of your "star photo"
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The Maps Category : Chinese Restaurant Store Front
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Date of your Star Photo - Photo taken 4 years ago on Wednesday January 4th 2017 @ 3:44pm (meta)
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Tell us if this is your best photo. - No, personally I feel I have many other more appealing photos. However, I believe I am starting to understand the increasing relevance of these type of photos - deeming themselves more informative and useful.
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Tell us why you think it’s your “star photo”. Because it helps maps users who navigate in their vehicle to quickly identify the destination. While driving you want your eyes on the road and the foreground and not on your maps app device. So photos of landmarks or storefronts provide easy recognition. Knowing what your looking for beforehand is helpful.
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The important factors that contribute to photo view stats. Recently this photo among a few others following a similar criteria have spiked in view counts on my profile surpassing my older “better” photos. The common denominator is that they are all store fronts. So there’s something occuring with my photos where users are wanting to know or see their destination beforehand, I believe. Like I mentioned all my store front type photos have spiked rapidly recently.
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What camera did you use Google Pixel f/2.0 1/433 4.67mm ISO 50
Sorry for the photo was taken in portrait mode. A landscape screen shot really didn’t make it look any better without zooming in so I felt the better option was to use the existing screen cap. attached. Please let me know if I need to change anything. Thanks for your consideration.